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Hakeem: An Arabic Application Aimed to Teaching Children First Aid using Augmented Reality

  • Al-ajlan, Monirah;Altukhays, Wujud;Alyousef, Deema;Almansour, Aljawharah;Alsukayt, Layan;Alajlan, Halah
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.368-374
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    • 2022
  • Children are by nature curious and enthusiastic about learning and love to explore and search for everything they see around them, but as a result of this exploration they may sometimes be exposed to dangerous situations ranging from falls to poisoning and suffocation. That is why when supporting a child's natural desire to explore the world and supporting his awareness of dangerous situations and good handling of them, helps him build a conscious scientific mind and enhance his curiosity in the natural world. It is not easy to imagine a difficult situation in which we or one of our family is in danger, unable to help ourselves or to help them in time, due to our complete ignorance of the rules of first aid. Hence the importance of learning first aid not only for the child but for the community and the world at large. "Hakeem" is an Arabic E-health educational application that aims to teach children from the age of six to eleven years first aid, in our belief that the seed of renaissance lies in the care and education of children, and the lack of Arabic content that aims to teach children first aid skills. The idea is to create a scenario in which the child is responsible for saving the person who will be in a dangerous situation using Augmented Reality (AR) technology, to increase engagement and interaction and provides a rich user experience, and according to the child's performance, he will get reward points. The game will have several levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Hakeem, and based on the player's points he will get a title and move to the next level, and when he reaches the end, he will get the certificate.

Recent Developments of Ubiquitous Health System Construction in Daegu Area (대구지역에서의 유비쿼터스 헬스 시스템 구축 현황)

  • Park, Kee-Hyun;Yoo, Sang-Jin
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2006
  • As the concept of well-being has become proliferated and an aging society has set in, there is a great demand for checking health condition of oneself as needed. Therefore, there is a growing interest in ubiquitous health systems all over the world, which can monitor health condition of oneself and transmit the monitoring results to the related medical institutes anytime anywhere. In this paper, some activities of ubiquitous health system developments all over the world are surveyed, and Medical Telematics project, one of ubiquitous health system projects being carried out currently in Daegu area, is introduced. The Medical Telematics project in Daegu area is carried out as one of RIS(Regional Innovation System) projects. An regional university, medical institutes, Technopark, and regional companies are organized into a consortium in order to construct a testbed for ubiquitous health industry in the future.

Analysis Testing of Sociocultural Factors Influence on Human Reliability within Sociotechnical Systems: The Algerian Oil Companies

  • Laidoune, Abdelbaki;Rahal Gharbi, Med El Hadi
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.194-200
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    • 2016
  • Background: The influence of sociocultural factors on human reliability within an open sociotechnical systems is highlighted. The design of such systems is enhanced by experience feedback. Methods: The study was focused on a survey related to the observation of working cases, and by processing of incident/accident statistics and semistructured interviews in the qualitative part. In order to consolidate the study approach, we considered a schedule for the purpose of standard statistical measurements. We tried to be unbiased by supporting an exhaustive list of all worker categories including age, sex, educational level, prescribed task, accountability level, etc. The survey was reinforced by a schedule distributed to 300 workers belonging to two oil companies. This schedule comprises 30 items related to six main factors that influence human reliability. Results: Qualitative observations and schedule data processing had shown that the sociocultural factors can negatively and positively influence operator behaviors. Conclusion: The explored sociocultural factors influence the human reliability both in qualitative and quantitative manners. The proposed model shows how reliability can be enhanced by some measures such as experience feedback based on, for example, safety improvements, training, and information. With that is added the continuous systems improvements to improve sociocultural reality and to reduce negative behaviors.

Customer Perspective Analysis on Ubiquitous Healthcare Services

  • Lee, Yun-Mi;Han, Hyeon-Su
    • 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 2008
  • While ubiquitous healthcare (u-health) services were expected to propagate along with conventional healthcare services, recent progress indicated rather limited market acceptance. In this paper, we investigated the fundamental causes of why the consumer acceptance level of u-health services has been low. We draw upon innovation adoption theories to analyze the consumer readiness of the typical u-health services. The comparative analysis between innovative u-health services and conventional services was performed using analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Subsequently, policy and business implications including technological breakthrough insights were discussed based on the customer perspective comparative adoption analysis. The propositions captured through this study provide useful insight to further studies on u-health services.

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An Overview of Information Processing Techniques for Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges (교량 건전성 모니터링을 위한 정보처리기법)

  • Lee, Jong-Jae;Park, Young-Soo;Yun, Chung-Bang;Koo, Ki-Young;Yi, Jin-Hak
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.615-632
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    • 2008
  • The bridge health monitoring has become an important research topic in conjunction with damage assessment and safety evaluation of structures owing to the improvement of structural modeling techniques incorporating response measurements and the advancements in signal analysis and information processing capabilities. The bridge monitoring systems are generally composed of hardwares such as sensors, data acquisition equipment, data transmission systems, etc, and softwares such as signal processing, damage assessment, display and management, etc. In this paper, the research and development(R&D) activities on the information processing for structural health monitoring of bridges are reviewed. After a brief introduction to the process of bridge health monitoring, various information processing techniques including various signal processing and damage detection algorithms are introduced in detail. Several challenges addressing critical issues in the current bridge health monitoring system and future R&D activities are discussed.

A Study on Five Levels of Security Risk Assessment Model Design for Ensuring the u-Healthcare Information System (u-헬스케어시스템의 정보보안 체계 확보를 위한 5단계 보안위험도 평가모델 설계)

  • Noh, Si Choon
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2013
  • All u-Health system has security vulnerabilities. This vulnerability locally(local) or network(network) is on the potential risk. Smart environment of health information technology, Ad-hoc networking, wireless communication environments, u-health are major factor to increase the security vulnerability. u-health care information systems user terminal domain interval, interval public network infrastructure, networking section, the intranet are divided into sections. Health information systems by separating domain specific reason to assess vulnerability vulnerability countermeasure for each domain are different. u-Healthcare System 5 layers of security risk assessment system for domain-specific security vulnerability diagnosis system designed to take the security measures are needed. If you use this proposed model that has been conducted so far vaguely USN-based health information network security vulnerabilities diagnostic measures can be done more systematically provide a model.

Reversible and High-Capacity Data Hiding in High Quality Medical Images

  • Huang, Li-Chin;Hwang, Min-Shiang;Tseng, Lin-Yu
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.132-148
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    • 2013
  • Via the Internet, the information infrastructure of modern health care has already established medical information systems to share electronic health records among patients and health care providers. Data hiding plays an important role to protect medical images. Because modern medical devices have improved, high resolutions of medical images are provided to detect early diseases. The high quality medical images are used to recognize complicated anatomical structures such as soft tissues, muscles, and internal organs to support diagnosis of diseases. For instance, 16-bit depth medical images will provide 65,536 discrete levels to show more details of anatomical structures. In general, the feature of low utilization rate of intensity in 16-bit depth will be utilized to handle overflow/underflow problem. Nowadays, most of data hiding algorithms are still experimenting on 8-bit depth medical images. We proposed a novel reversible data hiding scheme testing on 16-bit depth CT and MRI medical image. And the peak point and zero point of a histogram are applied to embed secret message k bits without salt-and-pepper.

Prevent Illegal Access Control for Secure Healthcare System (불법적인 접근 제어 방지를 위한 안전한 헬스케어 시스템)

  • Seo, Dae-Hee;Baek, Jang-Mi;Moon, Yong-Hyuk;Cho, Dong-Sub
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.59 no.3
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    • pp.657-663
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    • 2010
  • Today, rapid evolution of Internet makes various types of services in ubiquitous environment are intelligent and active. As a result, user's demand on high quality of life increases and health care service based on ubiquitous environment draws a lot of attention. However, user's private information used for health care service is illegally distributed and exposed, causing serious individual and social problems. Therefore, this thesis is intended to suggest a secure health care service to prevent unauthorized third party's access and to protect user's privacy in health care systems. The proposed scheme establishes a session key through communication channel between health care system and user based on explicit mutual authentication and provides secure communication and access control, improving security as one of the leading health care systems.

Application of Standard Terminologies for the Development of a Customized Healthcare Service based on a PHR Platform

  • Jung, Hyun Jung;Park, Hyun Sang;Kim, Hyun Young;Kim, Hwa Sun
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.303-308
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    • 2019
  • The personal health record platform can store and manage medical records, health-monitoring data such as blood pressure and blood sugar, and life logs generated from various wearable devices. It provides services such as international standard-based medical document management, data pattern analysis and an intelligent inference engine, and disease prediction and domain contents. This study aims to construct a foundation for the transmission of international standard-based medical documents by mapping the diagnosis items of a general health examination, special health examination, life logs, health data, and life habits with the international standard terminology systems. The results of mapping with international standard terminology systems show a high mapping rate of 95.6%, with 78.8% for LOINC, 10.3% for SNOMED, and 6.5% when mapped with both LOINC and SNOMED.

Occupational Hazards in Firefighting: Systematic Literature Review

  • Maria F. Cuenca-Lozano;Cesar O. Ramirez-Garcia
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2023
  • Background: Firefighting involves exposure of firefighters to risks related to this activity, serious injuries, and occupational diseases are recorded. There are other consequences such as thermal and emotional stress. This systematic review is proposed in order to analyze the risks and consequences faced by these workers and thus provide elements to improve safety management systems in institutions. Method: A descriptive observational study of systematic literature review on the risks and consequences of exposure to firefighters' activity was proposed, and the information was analyzed and described based on the available data and according to the variables determined. Results: The studies showed data on mechanical, physical, chemical, psychosocial risks, workers' perception and resilience, and epidemiological data. Information related to firefighters' activity on falls and slips, exposure to noise, and high concentrations of carbon monoxide is detailed. In addition, the relationship between burnout, cognitive, and physical fatigue as adverse effects on health and performance is mentioned. Conclusions: Among the preventive measures, the use of personal protective equipment is suggested, incorporation in prevention programs of information on exposure to risk factors, as well as the implementation of models that can predict the perception of workers, additionally, the generation of management systems with safety climate models for fire departments.